Mr Pitcairn

  • Artist (Photographer)
Mr Pitcairn was an amateur photographer. He took the original photographs of Tasmanian scenery from which stereographs were 'Beautifully Printed in London' then sold by J. Walch & Sons at Hobart Town in 1863.

Citations

  • Crisp, P. (1967), 'Robert Pitcairn’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, Pike, D., Shaw, A., Clark, M., Nairn, B., Serle, G., and Ward, R., eds, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1863), Walch’s Literary Intelligencer, July.

  • Information sourced from Glover, M.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870